Incredibly well put, and this largely applies to anything, not just 3D printing.

Hahahahaa

You… I have no words

Lol, I kind of went the other direction. Built a massive box years ago, the hardware aged out and I wanted something that wouldn’t draw 120w sitting there.

Tinkered with a Pi for a while and realized it really wasn’t worth the effort to make it useful for my needs.

Came across this thing and setup as a test. Then I saw the power draw, 15w at idle (little more than the Pi!) and decided to see how much I could do with it. Ran Proxmox on it for a while, but the power draw was awful because it lacks good, easy power management. Plus I don’t really need what PM can do…yet.

Can you spin up a VM or a docker image?

I’ve done this when services misbehave, and just migrate the DB over (Syncthing in particular).

Lol.

Still got the library issue, eh? Gonna have to just turn off services/apps/processes until you find the culprit.

Yea, buts that very different than software VOIP.

I know this first hand by having VOIP-only voice on my phone via a service using Monocles Chat or Cheogram.

Voice calls via my cell plan are much better quality and more consistent than VOIP via an app. I suspect this is because voice calls over 4G/5G are encoded by hardware.

Even Google Voice for calls is pretty awful, which is why I’ve never paid to use it for voice calls.

Ewww, Vista.

That’s like stepping in something nasty

I’d at least flip the drive on the right so it’s underside is closer to the fan, as that side gets hotter in my experience, so it would have more effective cooling.

RAID 5 is fine, as part of a storage and data management plan. I run it on an older NAS, though It can do RAID 6.

No RAID is reliable in the sense of “it’ll never fail” - fault tolerance has been added to it over the years but it’S still a storage pool from multiple drives.

ZFS adds to it’s fault resistance, but you still better have proper backups/redundancy.

It’ll eventually be anything those in power deem contrary to their agenda.

And people still clamor for a cashless society, when such issues are already obvious.

Pihole.

I thought all browsers on iOS were just wrappers for the same engine (webkit?), so they really can’t do much there.

I’m using the same, Dell OptiPlex SFF.

Has an M2 for the OS, put a full size 8TB drive in for data. I run multiple VMs in VMware on Windows (yep, I know, not the best approach).

It has 32GB of RAM, and it does fine simultaneously converting video and streaming it via Jellyfin. My data is locally replicated to two other systems: a NAS that’s too slow to actually host anything, and a low power machine just for replication.

What I would do differently: run Linux and use KVM of some sort.

Currently it idles at about 15w, peaks at 80w when converting. It’s practically silent at idle.

Paid next to nothing for the box (~$50), most costs are in the ram and drive upgrade.

“piqued” 👍

I’ve fired 45 and 50 cal pistols, they have quite a kick. It’s pretty interesting to go to a range and start with a 32, then 38, 9mm, 40, 45, and then 50.

40 isn’t much more kick than 9mm (for one round - shoot a few and you notice the difference), but 45 is noticeably more, and 50 is, as they say, “a freakin’ hand cannon”, in a much heavier/longer gun to boot.

So a double 45 would probably be more kick than a 50, though I’d have to look up some numbers and do a little math, keeping in mind a small increase in kinetic energy translates into noticeably more kick as your hand/arm have to control peak acceleration/momentum.

So it would be every bit double the energy of a 45, in the same grip, so would likely feel a lot worse.

I can only imagine what firing that would be like.

Hahahahaha, damn you!!

Dietpi.com

They have images for all sorts of devices, and for virtualization platforms (I run mine in VMware).

I ran a different one once before (built a Linux VM, installed Pi), this one was much easier, and it just works.

Oh, Syncthing? It could definitely do this, I’ve had it happen.

Once files are deleted, ST will have the deletion in it’s database. You can recreate the files all you want, ST is going to delete them.

The same problems exist in the fedivwrse, so it’s not because of profit.

Profit makes it worse, but the real problem is humans can be shitty - all of us - at one time or another.